(J4 PHILIPPINE POMACENTRID^E 



its tip away below the horizontal line passing through lower 

 edge of orbit; maxillary short, 3.2 to 3.3, ending in front of eye; 

 eye small and round, 3.4 to 4.2. Cleft of mouth almost horizon- 

 tal, jaws even; width of preorbital at angle of mouth greater 

 than half diameter of eye; teeth biserial, compressed, with 

 slightly rounded tips. Suborbital and hind edge of preopercle 

 strongly serrated; opercle terminating in a large flat spine. 



Scales on head extend to the bluish line between the orbits, 

 the area below and in front of this line naked; orbitals and 

 inferior limb of preopercle also naked. Dorsal spines increas- 

 ing gradually in height to the last. Rayed dorsal and anal fins 

 angular ; caudal fin emarginate, with the lobes rounded ; pectoral 

 and ventral about equal in length, both ending at vent. 



Ground color in alcohol yellowish olive, dusky below the soft 

 dorsal and on anterior half of body. Each scale with a bluish 

 vertical streak; head, anterior portion of trunk, and base of 

 vertical fins irregularly dotted with blue. A bluish white line 

 in front and between eyes; another from orbit, convergent at 

 snout; a third one across suborbital; one or two more or less 

 broken lines on cheek; a small black spot above opercle. Axil 

 of pectoral entirely blackish violet; anal tipped with grayish 

 and provided with a bluish longitudinal line near margin. 



The above description is based upon an examination of six 

 fairly large specimens, 75 tp 118.5 millimeters long, obtained 

 at Bantayan Island and at Sitankai Island, Sulu Archipelago. 

 The only previous Philippine records of this species are from 

 Zamboanga by Fowler and Bean, and from Cebu by Cartier as 

 Pomacentrus n. sp. 



This species appears close to Pomacentrus trimaculatus Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes, agreeing with it in the general form of the 

 body and in some details of color pattern, but differing from it 

 in having a slightly deeper body and a large black spot at the 

 axil of the pectoral. With the exception of the broad dark 

 band on the anterior half of the body, the examples above 

 described agree with Bleeker's figure. 



The species is known from the coast of Singapore throughtiut 

 the East Indies to New Guinea. 



POMACENTRUS TRIMACULATUS Cuvier and Valenciennes 



PLATE 12, PIG. 2 



Pomacentrus trimaculatus CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss. 5 (1830) 320; SCHLEGEL and MULLER, Overz. Amphi. Verh. 

 Nat. Ges. Ind. Overz. Bezitt. (1839) 20, pi. 4, fig. 2; BLEEKER, 

 Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 4 (1853) 481; GtiNTHER, Cat. Fishes 4 (1862) 



